Screenplay: Martin Rackin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Martin Rackin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 28
The Horse Soldiers
1959 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · William Holden · Constance Towers · Althea Gibson
Synopsis A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
The Enforcer
1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Bretaigne Windust · Raoul Walsh
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Zero Mostel · Ted de Corsia · Everett Sloane
Synopsis After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Distant Drums
1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Gary Cooper · Mari Aldon · Richard Webb · Arthur Hunnicutt
Synopsis After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Air Raid Wardens
1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Jacqueline White
Synopsis Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
6.7
43 votes
6.7
43 votes
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Three Secrets
1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Eleanor Parker · Patricia Neal · Ruth Roman · Frank Lovejoy
Synopsis A five-year-old-boy survives a plane crash in which his foster parents die. During the search for him, three women turn up, Susan, Phyllis and Ann, each of whom had given...
6.5
240 votes
6.5
240 votes
North to Alaska
1960 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast John Wayne · Stewart Granger · Capucine · Ernie Kovacs
Synopsis Year 1900. After partners George Pratt and Sam McCord strike it rich with their Nome, Alaska gold mine, George's only wish is to marry his French fiancée Jenny, who has...
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
Race Street
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast George Raft · William Bendix · Marilyn Maxwell · Frank Faylen
Synopsis Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he's opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. But Dan's best friend Hal runs afoul of...
6.4
54 votes
6.4
54 votes
Riffraff
1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast Pat O'Brien · Anne Jeffreys · Walter Slezak · Percy Kilbride
Synopsis A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps;...
6.3
31 votes
6.3
31 votes
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Hell on Frisco Bay
1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Alan Ladd · Edward G. Robinson · Joanne Dru · William Demarest
Synopsis After 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.
6.0
129 votes
6.0
129 votes
The Stooge
1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Polly Bergen · Marion Marshall
Synopsis Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
6.0
42 votes
6.0
42 votes
A Dangerous Profession
1949 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast George Raft · Ella Raines · Pat O'Brien · Bill Williams
Synopsis Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude...
5.9
80 votes
5.9
80 votes
The Big Land
1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Alan Ladd · Virginia Mayo · Edmond O'Brien · Anthony Caruso
5.6
153 votes
5.6
153 votes
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Fighter Squadron
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Robert Stack · John Rodney · Tom D'Andrea
Synopsis At an American air base in England, 1943, is conniving Sergeant Dolan, who manipulates everyone, and insubordinate ace fighter pilot Major Ed Hardin. When Ed is promoted to commander of...
5.6
87 votes
5.6
87 votes
Marine Raiders
1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast Pat O'Brien · Robert Ryan · Ruth Hussey · Frank McHugh
Synopsis Two Marine officers and their company go on leave when the Army takes over during the Guadalcanal invasion. Their leave is spent in Australia where one of the officers falls...
5.5
24 votes
5.5
24 votes
Sailor Beware
1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Hal Walker
Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Corinne Calvet · Marion Marshall
Synopsis Chasing pretty girls, blowing up a liferaft inside a submarine, virtually every sailor gag ever thought of, and a bunch of songs fill out this Martin and Lewis outing as...
5.4
100 votes
5.4
100 votes
Lisbon
1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Ray Milland
Cast Ray Milland · Maureen O'Hara · Claude Rains · Yvonne Furneaux
Synopsis High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal.
5.3
68 votes
5.3
68 votes
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Bombardier
1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Eugene L. Eubank · Pat O'Brien · Randolph Scott · Anne Shirley
Synopsis Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas...
5.2
65 votes
5.2
65 votes
The Deep Six
1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Alan Ladd · Dianne Foster · William Bendix · Keenan Wynn
Synopsis The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin...
4.7
65 votes
4.7
65 votes
The Barbarians
1960 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Jack Palance · Milly Vitale · Deirdre Sullivan · Austin Willis
Synopsis Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley,...
4.5
69 votes
4.5
69 votes
Three Secrets (TV)
1999 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Marcus Cole
Cast Jaclyn Smith · Katy Boyer · Nicole Forester · Scott Plank
Synopsis Three women each cling to the hope that an 8 year old boy that survives an airplane crash is their son that was put up for adoption as a baby....
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